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Spring ephemeral.

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— May 4, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

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Virginia Woolf

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"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

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January 27, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

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turns out I’ll always carry my 15 year old self. silly me

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My last post made me wonder how the Latin verse "Animula, vagula, blandula" by Emperor Hadrian was translated in English (in French the Yourcenar translation phrases it as "little roaming, welcoming soul"), and I found this page with 43 versions and regardless of which one is more faithful I just love how translation makes 43 new poems out of 1 poem

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if your man sends you an evil ass text message and you don’t know how to respond, come to me. I will ghost write your response.

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Когда-то здесь кипела жизнь

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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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victor hugo, les misérables / nora sakavic, the sunshine court

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{Quotes marguaxpoetry on Instagram / Sarah Kay}

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“and the universe said…”

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People never seem to want to hang out at animal habitats. If they can’t see something immediately, they just leave. If you’re patient enough to stay, sometimes incredibly magical experiences happen. Like this one.

Those are California condors. Biggest wingspan in North America, incredibly endangered, and the only species with approval from USDA for emergency use of the poultry avian flu vaccine.

Towards the end of the day, once things got quiet, I sat down near where one was foraging and just hung out. Then… they noticed me.

I can only upload one video so I’m going with the one where I was showing them my glasses, since they kept trying to peck at my shoelaces and fingers and I wondered what else they'd be interested in.

They stayed there with me for at least five minutes, given the duration of video I took. Just chilling, watching me, interacting a little. It was just us - nobody else approached. Until eventually they chose to go do their own thing, and I sat there in awe for a while.

It’s worth it to wait, when you can.

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I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something